Holly-victoria Painter
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My Portsmouth Uni Journey
It was September 2015 and I was sat in my partners car going towards Portsmouth ready for me to start at the University of Portsmouth in a few weeks, I wanted to go down earlier as it was a new area to me and I wanted to have plenty of time to find my way around before the term started. My first University home was Helena road by the canoe lake in Southsea, Portsmouth. I was literally a five minute walk from the beach. Moving away from home (which for me was Bristol) was daunting because before now I had never lived on my own and had my family within minutes of each other if I needed help but now I was going to have to figure everything out on my own. I suppose in a way I choose a Uni away from home so that I could find myself and be more independent then I was back home, it would be good for me and lets face we all have to grow up and become adults at some point so why not start at university.
By Holly-victoria Painter5 years ago in Journal
Building an author image from nothing.
I have spent years writing stories but never showing them to anyone. As a teenager I would sit at my grandad dinning room table with a pen and a sheets of paper and write my debut book 'Last to Survive'. It was not until I got to college and university that I really dived into my writing where I started to learn many things and I am still learning as I carry on down the road to becoming a full time self published author.
By Holly-victoria Painter5 years ago in Motivation
